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Accenture IWD's celebration

Giveup? No!! Its too maintstream :P Accenture out of the blue (as far as I know) decided to have an IWD (International Women Day) celebration in my college on 6th April, 2017 and I received a mail that interested students can tell their achievements for felictation ceremony, so did I. Since the achiever's were to be selected by TnP (Training and Placement cell) of our college, I keep it that way. As always, we were given the threat to be not able to sit in further placements if we don't attend. And funny part it we were discussing what will be their message this time :P Anyways, I wanted to attend the event as finally something was happening in college and yeah I had hope of winning that award due to some of my achievements, specially this . We were given the time of 9 a.m. to reach and I knew that event won't start, so I reach at about 9:45 A.M. on that fine morning. That's what me and my friends do to our classes too :P But to my surprise, although event wasn&

Smart India Hackathon

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Giveup? No!! Its too maintstream :P So a bit about Smart India Hackathon for those who already don't know. It is considered to be the World's biggest Hackathon which comes under Prime Minister's Digital India movement. It was organized by @mygov and @IndiaKaIdea in association with AICTE, NASSCOM, NIC & MHRD to innovate new ideas and use technology to bring about the changes that the country needs. 29 ministers participated in this and came up with 698 problem statements they actually face. Around 1200 teams who got selected out of 7531 teams of 6 students each coded for 36 hours at 33 different places across the country. Now back to my story, I haven't met much passionate girls in my college and when my friends told me about Smart India Hackathon, I didn't know how I will participate but anyhow, I made a random team with all beginners with thought of, that at maximum, I won't get selected but at least would have tried.  I worked hard to motivate and

Introduction to Git and Github

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Why Git? When you have to do a project like a college project with your friends what do you do? I had used Google Drive, DropBox etc. Most probably you must also have use the similar methods. But don't you think these methods are very cumbersome in terms of collaboration or you can say 'A perfect reciepe of disaster' as shown.     What is Git? Git is an open source, distributed version control system designed for speed and efficiency open-source: its source code is availabe free of cost distributed version control: allows many software developers to work on a given project without requiring them to share a common network. efficiency: on git since everything is local, working in git is highly efficient. Some of the basic terms used while working with git are: Repository: A basic folder or a collection of files that represents one project. The name of this repository is Git-Guide. When you clone, you clone an entire r